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mattfinarelli
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Posted 2 years ago #

I have installed the sidebar widgets, and they were working just fine. I added some text widgets, and those worked fine, until I used a UL tag to indent the content some to fit better on my theme. Since then I have been unable to confiugure ANY of my widgets. That is, the little box on the right of each widget that you click to bring up more details about the content of that widget is not working. Nothing happens.

I have tried deletinig the text widgets, de-activating and re-activating the plugin, i even re-installed the widgets via ftp to see if the overwrite would help. Nothing - it is as if I hadn't done anything. In short, I would like to get the ability to edit my widgets back, but they seem stuck.

The drag and drop functionality works fine - it is just the individual ones remain uneditable.
mattfinarelli
Member
Posted 2 years ago #

any ideas? I have not seen anybody have a similar problem, but if anyone could offer a suggestion, I would appreciate it, as I am out of ideas, but I want to keep using widgets...
Jaqueline
Member
Posted 2 years ago #

I'm having the same problem... tried to change browser, reinstall it, everything... :-(
naa
Member
Posted 2 years ago #

I'm having the same problem, all of a sudden the ability to configure my widgets just stopped. I've tried using IE & FireFox. I've even re-installed the widgets plugin (and double checked file folder location). Was working fine last week.

The only thing I did from then until now was activated then de-activated UTW and did the same for useronline & the widget.
joshuamneff
Member
Posted 2 years ago #

I'm having the same problem. The sidebar arrangement box displays "Default Sidebar" and the widgets are all along the bottom, but I can't edit the widgets or get them to actually stay in the arrangement box. If anyone knows what's going on, there are at least four people here who would love to know what's up.
amplifyinteractive
Member
Posted 2 years ago #

Same here. We need help =(
jimmiles
Member
Posted 2 years ago #

Widgets would be a good idea but its problems like this that keep me back from relying on them to any degree. I am having the same problem, and it's a good thing I don't really need them, cause if I did I would be screwed.
shardul
Member
Posted 2 years ago #

I am having the same problem - everything was hunky dory until I upgraded to 2.2.1 - and now I can't do a thing with my widgets - access denied as it were. Anybody go any ideas. I have tried all sorts of things but no luck.
GreaterShows
Member
Posted 2 years ago #

Can't configure Widgets?

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Widgets won't stay in the box?

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Sounds like I'm suffering the same problem. I think Shardul may be onto something with the 2.2.1 angle. I have another site running 2.1.3 with the same Widgets and I'm not having problems with it.

Any ideas?
kifo
Member
Posted 2 years ago #

I am also facing the same problem here. I can't configure my text and rss widgets. Stuck! Any solution?
GreaterShows
Member
Posted 2 years ago #

I'm new to the WP support forums, but I'm wondering if there's a way to elevate this thread to catch the eye of a mod or senior member who might be able to assist. Obviously the eight of us have yet to find a solution. How do we activate the Bat Signal?
kellysh
Member
Posted 2 years ago #

Am having the same problem with Widgets since upgrading to 2.2.1 Can't activate the plugin because I get a "fatal error" when I try and am unable to access my widgets to do anything with my sidebar content. Is there a fix for this or are we having to just suck it up and left hanging with half working themes and blogs?
rmack
Member
Posted 2 years ago #

I am having a similar problem. Sidebar option doesn't show up in presentations and when I try deactivate/activate the widgets plugin it says 'fatal error'.

Quite annoying. Hope the powers that be take a look at this sometime soon.
shardul
Member
Posted 2 years ago #

I have been able to get around this problem in another way thanks to the advice of Sadish, who is the creator of the MistyLook theme that I use on my site, and his buddy Kasia. You can see our conversation here: http://forums.wpthemes.info/comments.php?DiscussionID=607
The advice that Kasia gave me regarding manually configuring the side bar in the sidebar.php file worked and that is how I reconfigured my sidebar in the end. If you are using a theme other than MistyLook, perhaps it would be wise to ask your theme's creator about this - I'm a relative newbie to all this.

And if you do try the manual option, which isn't too difficult once you get the hang of it, my advice would be to backup your original sidebar.php file before you start in case everything goes pear-shaped and you need to reinstall the original to start again.

My site is http://www.kiwicelt.com and all the sidebar widgets above Recent Posts were installed manually. Good luck... I do hope a real expert chimes in about this issue at some stage. I would personally prefer to configure my sidebar via the conventional route and hope it fixes itself at some stage - perhaps with the next upgrade of WP. Cheers...
hayesy
Member
Posted 2 years ago #

My widgets worked fine until I upgraded from 2.2.1 to 2.2.2, and now the status bar of the widgets page says Done, but with errors on page. and the 'configure' buttons don't work. They can still be moved around, however.

Has anyone got a fix for this without manually putting them into sidebar.php?

Update: an impulse made me double click the status bar, and I found some details about the error:
Line: 100 Chare: 4 Error: 'null' is null or not an object Code: 0 URL: http://www.thecrazyaustralian.com/wp-admin/widgets.php
madmblue
Member
Posted 2 years ago #

I'm another one whose widgets are stuck. Can't add new ones to the box, can't edit the ones I have. Any more info on what the problem might be?
LostInNetwork
Member
Posted 2 years ago #

Same here. I can drag widgets to/from sidebar and rearrange them, but that little button that opens the popup windows does not work. Hence, I cannot configure my widgets.

It used to be possible - but it isn't anymore. No WP upgrade.

Hmm, I have inserted text and hyperlinks (with images) in the text widgets...
LostInNetwork
Member
Posted 2 years ago #

Eh, this is embarrassing but...

restoring wordpress/wp-includes/widgets.php to original state solved my problem. I had been messing with that script in order to make Gengo translate the widget headers and in order to replace the "Search" -text with an image. I managed to change too many places (one too many, actually), and broke the widget editing. A few rollbacks, and now I have no problems anymore (but I still have the new features I added).

I also detected that the "js-things don't work" situation was happening in this widgets-admin panel ONLY. Hence, this script was the cause. No, it was not a file permission issue. It was code problem. It did not affect only the widget editing code, but it also disabled at least Admin Dropdown Menus js-code.

I would recommend a restore of wp-includes/widgets.php as a general solution.

Does this work for you?
thiel
Member
Posted 2 years ago #

Same problem here. Thing is, it only affects one of the two blogs I installed ON THE SAME DAY!!
soni
Member
Posted 2 years ago #

Can't configure mine, either. I can move them, but when I click on the configure icon, nothing happens.

Tried switching themes to default (figured if any would work, it would) - but no joy.

:-(
soni
Member
Posted 2 years ago #

Hey, fixed it. In my case, it turns out that deactivating the "Buy Me A Beer" plugin corrected the problem.

I'll pass that on to the developer.
baxley
Member
Posted 2 years ago #

I just had the same problem. Deactivate any plugins that you are not using or really don't need. It worked for me.
vand
Member
Posted 2 years ago #

Hello,

Suddenly I can't configure the sidebar widgets of all my Wordpress blogs and websites, any idea on how to fix this?

I tried to deactivate all the plugins but nothing changed.

I also tried to upgrade to wordpress 2.3 but it didn't help.

I've been searching among other topics in this forum but I didnt't find nothing that could help.

Now...considering that I'm not the only one with this problem...and considering that this is a 'support forum'...please, could anybody from Wordpress try to help us?!

Is there any moderator or senior member that can give us support to solve this problem?

I really think that Wordpress is super so please don't let us down!
vand
Member
Posted 2 years ago #

Any idea? Help? Suggestions?
kevinboer
Member
Posted 2 years ago #

Here's how I was able to get the widgets to behave themselves...

First, a description of the problem.
Second, how I solved it. Hope it helps other folks. This forum has been immensely helpful to me, and I'm glad that I can finally return the favor.

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First, a description of the problem:

I'm running Wordpress 2.1.3 (I haven't upgraded because of compatibility issues with some of the other widgets I'm running)

Yesterday, widgets were running fine.

Suddenly today, widgets were no longer running fine. In particular, as described above, I was getting the following symptoms:

In Firefox: In Presentation - Sidebar Widgets, the little icon on the right side of each widget -- the one you press to configure it -- had simply disappeared for all the widgets. No way to configure any of the widgets.

In Safari: Same as Firefox.

In IE6: The icon appeared, but only worked sporadically to allow me to configure each widget.

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Secondly, how I solved it:

I noticed that I was running an earlier version of the Sidebar Widgets plugin (version 1.0.something).

I simply went to http://automattic.com/code/widgets/ and re-installed the Sidebar Widgets plugin for Wordpress 2.1.x provided on that page. The version of the Sidebar Widgets plugin appears to be 1.2.1.20070210b

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Further comments:

a) I believe this fix will only work if you're also using Wordpress 2.1.x.

b) If you're using Wordpress 2.0.x, it will probably work to re-install the Sidebar Widgets plugin for Wordpress 2.0.x, also provided at http://automattic.com/code/widgets/

c) If you're using Wordpress 2.2 or later, I don't know what the solution would be, as the Sidebar Widgets plugin is, as I understand it, included in the install.
Atrus
Member
Posted 2 years ago #

I'm having the same issue. The oddest thing is that on my own home server the widget configuration works perfectly, but on the remote server where the official site is it suddenly doesn't work. I have no idea about what it could be, if not maybe different file permissions for the scripts.
colvin
Member
Posted 2 years ago #

Same problem for me too -- won't configure. I've read all the posts here and in some other threads. I deleted via FTP my old installation of Sidebar Widgets [originally installed back in February but never used until early this week when I discovered the configuration problem]. I downloaded again Sidebar Widgets for WP 2.0, uploaded the newer version and activated it. Same problem. Then I uploaded several newer widget ready themes and tried them -- same problem.

Also the widget list and the sidebar column are not side-by-side -- one is above the other. Drag and drop works OK.

Any ideas?

I'm frigtened to upgrade to 2.3, as my blog has a very elaborate category/child-category system -- and I've read 2.3 plays dirty with old categories.

HELP!!!
colvin
Member
Posted 2 years ago #

MORE TO MY REPLY OF 2 DAYS AGO, which is just above:

Since no advice forthcoming about how to get widgets working in 2.0 [busy weekend for everyone, I guess], I bit the bullet and installed 2.3 in a separate folder, with copy of database.

The installation went OK: I've got all the posts and pages from my old installation. Of course, the plug-in are not there, but then they need to be upgraded and installed -- I see no problem there.

HOWEVER: again, the widget page doesn't work. In this case, I can't even drag and drop the widgets that comes with 2.3 -- I only see a text list of widgets, not appearing in the usual individual boxes.

HELP!!!

I've been working on this for maybe 15 hours now over the past 3 days.
seville
Member
Posted 2 years ago #

Same problem here, I suddenly had this problem on 2.2.3 and couldn't configure any widgets. I upgrade today to 2.3 and now I can configure all widgets except 2, top commentator widget and picasa widget. All other work fine.

Would be really great if someone can help. I also disabled all plugins, but no change.
TheDweller
Member
Posted 1 year ago #

I'm more the same as you guys, only I am running 2.3.1 with widgets already installed when I installed it, my problem is:

When I go to the widgets page, I can click on the configure button next to the widget and the configuration box comes up (screen goes light blue at the same time) but when I try to click on any of the configuration boxes the whole thing just disappears again and im left with the widgets screen, tried it in several different internet explorers all with the same results, im suprised there hasnt been anyone who can help here

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